Articlesmelanie brannagan frederiksen
melanie brannagan frederiksen (she/her) is a writer and critic living in Winnipeg, on Treaty 1 Territory. Her poems have been published in various print and online venues. Her first full-length collection of poetry, the night, the knife, the river will be published in fall 2026 by At Bay Press.
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FictionPost-apocalyptic novella follows a legend living under the weight of expectation
Red Deer–based author C. J. Lavigne’s latest work, The Drowned Man’s Daughter, is a novella that occupies the intersection of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is also the first title in NeWest Press’s new Barbour Books speculative fiction imprint. -
FictionScott Nolan shares his ethos of art as identity, culture, ‘higher power’ in latest mixed-genre releases
Scott Nolan’s two latest books, Man on a Wheel: A Tribute to Patrick O’Connell and Nolanville, are extensions of the ethos by which he lives. -
Novella’s experimental approach shows the world through Kid’s eyes
Harman Burns’s arresting debut, the novella Yellow Barks Spider, is an experimental trans Bildungsroman that follows the protagonist, Kid, through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. -
Non-FictionEssays offer glimpse into Cam Scott as enthusiastic reader, melding literature and theory
Winnipeg poet and critic Cam Scott’s second book The Vanishing Signs is a collection of essays that explore literature and politics, using various theories to illuminate those explorations. -
Non-FictionEssay collection contemplates all that art has to say, and the imagination of Winnipeg
In Malleable Forms: Selected Essays, Meeka Walsh, long-time editor of the art magazine Border Crossings, has collected just under half of the essays she’s published over the last 30 years. Choosing the essays involved a lot of reading and “a sort of travelling back through the incidents of my life and the world around me,” says the member of the Order of Canada. -
FictionPlett’s old protagonists return, explore elusive meaning of being ‘grown up’
Originally from Manitoba, Casey Plett currently lives in Windsor, Ontario. Her latest collection of short stories, A Dream of a Woman, follows a number of trans women as they navigate the space between the lives they lead and the lives they wish they had. -
FictionLa Betty bows before the altar of materialism in satirical tale
Jeanne Randolph’s latest book, My Claustrophobic Happiness, is a satire that, in keeping with her ongoing artistic and intellectual projects, skewers capitalism and “mock[s] consumerism whenever possible.” -
PoetryDebut poetry collection considers transitions under the Prairie sky
Sarah Ens’s first collection of poetry, The World Is Mostly Sky, is a closely observed exploration of her rural Prairie roots, as well as the landscape’s – and the sky’s – changing physical and emotional resonances. -
Non-FictionCommunication strategies for classrooms, students, and scholars are easily adaptable
Kyle Conway is a professor of communication studies at the University of Ottawa. His third book, The Art of Communication in a Polarized World, asks, “How do we come to understand people who seem different from us?” -
FictionAn epic landscape creates space to examine substance use and the passage of time
Calgary-based writer and editor Susan Forest’s debut novel, Bursts of Fire, is the first of a seven-part epic fantasy series called Addicted to Heaven, set in the seven kingdoms that make up Shangril.
